Today’s Headlines
Biden’s Infrastructure Speech Highlights the Administration’s Disappointing Record (CFR, AP) “Possible” Presidential Candidates Still Trading Barbs About the Auto Bailout (WaPo) Sen. Susan Collins Pushes to Raise Trucker Limit From 70 to 82 Hours a Week (The Hill) Let’s All Calm the Heck Down About Ebola on Public Transportation (Yahoo News) When Oil Prices Rise, Pols … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:55 AM EDT on October 17, 2014
- Biden’s Infrastructure Speech Highlights the Administration’s Disappointing Record (CFR, AP)
- “Possible” Presidential Candidates Still Trading Barbs About the Auto Bailout (WaPo)
- Sen. Susan Collins Pushes to Raise Trucker Limit From 70 to 82 Hours a Week (The Hill)
- Let’s All Calm the Heck Down About Ebola on Public Transportation (Yahoo News)
- When Oil Prices Rise, Pols Call for Gas Tax Holiday. Oil Prices Are Low Now. (Bloomberg)
- Chicago Gets Major Upgrade in Farecard Technology, Consolidation (GovTech, BizJournal)
- DC’s 11th Street Park Will Literally Bridge Two Very Different Neighborhoods (CityLab)
- Miamians Spend Bigger Share of Their Income on Housing + Transpo Than New Yorkers (New Times)
- Toronto Needs More Transit But Isn’t Willing to Pay For It (Global News)
- Strong Towns‘ Chuck Marohn Lays Out the Conservative Case Against the Suburbs
- Amtrak CEO Joseph Boardman Talks to CityLab About the New Rail Bill
Tanya became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radios Washington bureau and for public radio stations around the country. She lives car-free in a transit-oriented and bike-friendly neighborhood of Washington, DC.
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